Why We Celebrate The Fourth of July
July 4, 2022 | Menagerie
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
The complete list of those who signed were:
John Hancock (president of the Continental Congress), Josiah Bartlett, William
Whipple, Matthew Thornton, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine,
Elbridge Gerry, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Roger Sherman, Samuel
Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, William Floyd, Philip Livingston,
Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis
Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin
Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson,
George Ross, Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean, Samuel Chase, William
Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, George Wythe, Richard Henry
Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot
Lee, Carter Braxton, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn, Edward Rutledge,
Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, Button Gwinnett,
Lyman Hall, and George Walton.
Check out this link for the sobering fate of many of those who so pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. [H/T to TheOriginalG-d&Country for this source.]
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